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...TOMBOY (215 pp.) - Hal Ellson -Scribner...
...caressed and warmed by the Merrills, and she begins to feel that at last she has a home. As the years go by, Debby completely identifies herself with the family, listens to young Britt Merrill contemplating suicide because he has failed in school, puts up with the antics of Tomboy Betty, who likes to do anything provided it is mean enough, learns how to get along with high-strung Mrs. Merrill, and gladly forgoes her wages when Mr. Merrill is hit by the Depression. The high point of Debby's pathetic little life comes when she gets a chance...
...school was at the crossroads of the world and a number of our students [who studied TIME] in those early days have since appeared in headlines in TIME. The Duke of Edinburgh, as the little exiled Prince Philip of Greece, Princess Anne de Bourbon (she was more of a tomboy than a student), John Eisenhower...
...form or another, this gentle New England story in its latest version has few surprises. One of them is Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy's success in bringing to life once more the faded sentiments and the tintyped situations. Another is June Allyson's playing of tomboy Jo. She has a refreshing breeziness and bounce which make the old tale believable and now & then lift it right out of its tatted frame. Other notable performances are Margaret O'Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late...
...whinnies nervous encouragement as she trains for the trotting races. (P.S.: she does all right.) Left to their own devices, these glorious animals are a treat to watch. But too much time is wasted on relatively dull human beings: the Healthy Juvenile who owns Crown Jewel (Robert Arthur); his tomboy girl friend (Peggy Cummins, prettily poured into dungarees); her growling, boozy grandfather (a deadly conventional role all but redeemed by Charles Coburn's restraint); Burl Ives (singing a weird, savage ballad about two battling white stallions, which contrasts oddly with the picture's prevailing genteelism...